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By Bertus
#7033
What about meeting the rising global meat demands, with producing insect meat? There are insects that are easy (and cheap) to grow and nutritious as well. I know that the idea of eating them is not attracting to most people in the western world, but a good marketing campaign can do a lot. Surely we are eating snails, sea fruit and hamburgers (of which we just can speculate what is in them) too. So why not eat bugs?

Reward: The fun of eating a macbug and see people forget that a few years before they detested everything crawling.
By Sidekra2
#7099
Maybe in a hundred years or so.
By sneezyalex
#7223
They do. There are actually some companies who sell bugs but they sell so little the usally go broke.
Posibbly in a hundred years or so when people realise how nutricious bugs are.
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By Steve
#7230
They are nutricious, but not very tasty. :-P
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By Michael D. Grissom
#7236
hmmmmmm... genetically engineer scorpions to the size of lobsters and what would be the difference??? mmmmmmmmmm :-P
By MaryfromMatawan
#7376
Actually, you already do eat bugs! Some yogurts particularly have "Carmine" or "Carminic Acid" listed in the ingredients. Look it up. And don't scream!
By sneezyalex
#7381
Lots of people eat bugs in africa and places like that. It is very nutrecious and often their only food. ;-D
By Rishi
#7401
The toal amount of insect protein from an acre of cultivated land is much more than the protein from the crop grown. National Geogaphic channel carried a piece showing various insects sold routinely in Mexico(?). I am told that they have a nutty flavour.

As a vegetarian this does not have much personal bearing to me. But as a third world citizen seeing starving children all around with kwashiorkor (protein malnurition), I feel that all ideas to increase low cost protein supply certainly have to be vigorously promoted.

Rishi
By sneezyalex
#7409
Intresting! ;-D
By Nocturne
#10562
doesn't sound 2 appetizing....but a healthy alternative to Big Mac ;-D
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